fedor@dsg.csc.ti.com (Lee Fedor) (02/14/90)
I asked..... >>And while we are on the subject of bothersome questions, >>is there an easy way to disable shutdown messages from >>popping up in all of the windows that you have open? We >>are running 4.0.3 on sparc systems and running X11R3. >>mesg n does not shut off the messages about a system going >>down. Is that because root can always overwrite? It seems >>that there should be someway that you could direct those >>messages to come up in the console window only. Faut C. Baran writes --<faut@columbia.edu> |If you are logging in via xterm, there is a switch that says whether |or not a utmp entry should be written. wall (shutdown does a wall) |writes to all ttys that have logged in users on it (from info in |/etc/utmp). Of course, if no utmp entry is written then you are |"invisible" to programs like finger. So using xterm -ut does accomplish what I was looking for and I have many happy users. Many many thanks to Faut, and I hope others find this useful also. Once again saved by the net! Lee Fedor System Administrator Texas Instruments Austin, Texas (512)250-7573 fedor@dsg.csc.ti.com